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larger in the provinces where the non-Jewish population is 

 fairer. This can be seen from the following table taken from 

 Virchow's work : 



Province. 



Blonds. 



Brunettes. 





Jews. 



11.23 

 II. 17 

 10.32 

 10.38 

 13-51 



Christians. 



Jews. 



Christians. 



Prussia 



39-75 

 31-53 

 24-34 

 20.36 

 18.44 



43-34 

 41.50 



41-95 

 39-45 

 34-59 



9-29 

 13.22 

 21 18 



Hessen 



Baden 



Bavaria 



21.10 



Alsace-Lorraine 



25.21 



These figures shows in a striking manner that in the provinces 

 of Germany, where the percentage of brunettes is smallest among 

 the Christian population, in Prussia only 14.05 percent, the Jews 

 have 42.34 percent of brunettes, the highest percentage; while 

 in Alsace-Lorraine and Bavaria where the Christians have 25.21 

 and 21. 1 percent respectively of brunettes, the Jews have only 

 34.59 and 39.45 percent of such persons. A consideration of 

 the color of the eyes of the school children in Germany gives 

 the same results : 



Percent of Fair Eyes. 

 Jews. Christians. 



Prussia 18.7 43.0 



Bavaria 20.0 29.0 



Percent of Dark Eyes. 

 Jews. Christians. 



53-5 24.3 



49.0 49.0 



Where the proportion of fair eyes among the Christians is 

 large, as in Prussia, the Jews have only 18.7 percent, while in 

 Bavaria, where only 29 percent of the non-Jewish children had 

 fair eyes, the Jewish had 20 percent. This is more strikingly 

 confirmed by considering the distribution of the pure blond and 

 brunette types among the Jews in Germany and Austria from 

 Virchow's and Schimmer's works. 



Austria. 

 Pure Blonds. Pure Brunettes. 

 46.87 



Gei 

 Pure Blonds. 

 Silesia 8.20 



many. 

 Pure Brunettes 



49-53 

 50.58 



47.39 



43-04 

 39.22 



Pomerania 8.85 



Brandenburgh 9.64 

 East and West 



Prussia ii . 6 1 



Posen 12.39 



Bohemia 8.29 



Lower Austria 8.69 46.16 



Moravia 9.86 43-^5 



Bukowina 13-55 35-21 



Galicia 13.97 32.91 



